July 14, 2013

Attendance

8:45 Service ~ 202 11:00 Service ~ 381

Passport ~ 33 Total Worship ~ 616

Bible Study ~ 442

Giving

Current Week:

$ 25,339

Campus Improvement: $ 494

Loving and Leading People into a Growing

Relationship with Jesus

3515 Grandview Ave Louisville, KY 40207

(502) 896-8882

Web Site: www.smbclouisville.org

E Mail:

smbc@smbclouisville.org

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Children’s Ministry

Sunday, July 21

8:45

Babies/Crawlers & Toddlers: Jody & Whitney Rogers 2&3&4&5 Year Olds: Stephanie Garrard & David Houvenagle

11:00 Babies/Crawlers & Toddlers: Helen Caswell &Julie Marlow 2&3 Year Olds: Jason & Laura Russell 4&5 Year Olds: Dale Bartels & Susan Boyer

“Helping teachers, help students.”

St. Matthews Baptist Church is partnering with St. Matthews Elementary School to provide school supplies, copy paper for teachers, food for disadvantaged children, Box Tops for Education, and classroom helpers and tutors for each class. School Supplies!

We will be providing backpacks and school supplies for 60 disadvantaged children in our community. Stop by the big display board in the foyer any time between now and August 4th and pick a card to find out how you can help! Each card shows a specific school supply and the quantity needed. The list of supplies comes directly from JCPS. Please honor requested brand names, i.e. Crayola markers. Take as many as you like, but make sure you bring the supplies back to church and place them in the yellow school bus in the Foyer by August 4th! Tutors & Classroom Helpers!

We are looking for 44 people to serve as Tutors and Classroom Helpers at St. Matthews Elementary. Interested persons will be asked to serve a classroom for one hour per week for the entire school year. If you are interested in serving the community in this way, please stop by the designated table on Sunday mornings and fill out an application. All appli-cants will be required to fill out a background check, attend an orientation meeting on August 16th at SMBC, and attend a breakfast at St. Matthews Elementary on August 19th at 9:00 a.m. where you will be introduced to your teacher. Monetary Donations!

We are collecting monetary donations (cash or checks) that will go toward: (1) providing a box of copy paper for each St. Matthews Elementary School teacher and (2) working through Dare to Care to provide backpacks with food for dis-advantaged children to take home on weekends, and (3) helping families with the $25 supply fee required by the school. Please place all monetary donations in the designated box at the Welcome Center or bring to the Church Office. Box Tops for Education! We are collecting Box Tops for Education. Any donations received will be split equally between Sunrise Children’s Services and St. Matthews Elementary School. Here is how it works: BUY your favorite Box Tops products

Box Top Brand Examples: General Mills®, Betty Crocker

®, Fiber One

®, Green Giant

®, Yoplait

®, Hamburger

Helper®, Pillsbury

®, Totino’s

®, Old El Paso

®, Progresso

®, Mott’s

®, Hanes

®, Ziploc

®, Kleenex

®, Hefty

®, Avery La-

bels®, and Hi-Liter

®

CUT out the Box Top from each package BRING your Box Tops to the Church Office or drop in receptacle in the Foyer Sunrise and SME receive ten cents for every Box Top turned in to help them purchase the things they need most. All those Box Tops really add up!

Crossings for Kids! It’s almost time for Crossings for

Kids! Final info, including a list of what to bring, when we leave and who is going with us can be found on our church website under Grades 1-4 and Grades 5-6. All campers need to complete a medi-cal form as well as select POI’s (activities). Our info page will tell you how to do this if you have not already completed them. Call Emily Thompson at 502-896-8882 or see David Garrard if you have questions. Super 6 to Kings Island! Outgoing 6th graders are headed for Kings Island on Thursday, August 2. We will leave the church at 7:30 a.m. and return around 11:00 p.m. This annual trip marks the end of Children’s Ministry for this age group and celebrates their en-trance into Student Ministry. Cost is $25 per person plus money for meals. Please call Emily at 502-896-8882 to sign up so we can plan for transportation. (We will not be going into the water park.)

Parent’s Meetings! David Garrard will be leading Par-ent’s Meetings for parents of chil-dren and preteens on Sunday morn-ing, August 25—the first Sunday of our new church year. The meetings will be held in the chapel at 8:45 and 11:00 a.m. David will share important information about the upcoming year. Please mark your calendar now and plan to join us.

Looking ahead

August 18

New Year’s Eve! Last Sunday in current classes

August 21

Wednesday evening activities resume

August 25

New Year’s Day! First Sunday in new classes

Preteen Breakfast

Parent’s Meetings

during both worship services

Volunteers for the July 10th Summer Missions on Wednesdays painted the outside of God’s Designs storage/workplace building.

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Hospital List Baptist Health Louisville Albin Lee—Room 548

Other Care Facilities

HCR Manor Care Doris Sheppard—Room 108 Sam Swope Care Center Jackie Jackson—Room 201 Westport Place Marguerite Rhodes—Room 509

Welcome New Members

Sunday, June 30

Scott & Tammy Etherton Abigail and Madeline

Thank You

Dear church family, My family and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your loving support through cards, flowers & kind condolences. Asa truly loved and supported our church through all the years that we have been members. When the kids and I talk of him in days and weeks to come, the church will always be a part of those memories. His desire was for the church to succeed and always made it his mission to help that happen. As my family contin-ues to attend St. Matthews Baptist Church, it will always be a sweet reminder of his legacy. He loved his church and we are so grateful to you for lifting us up during this dif-ficult time in our lives. With loving thanks, Sylvia Hord & Family

We have just received some excit-ing news. The Greater Louisville Association of Realtors will be sponsoring a golf outing on Mon-day, July 22 at the Oxmoor Country Club and God’s Designs will be one of 3 recipients to receive funds from the event. Would be great to have a team from SMBC to show support for the ministry. Lee Yates will be sending out info to all the golfers at SMBC so let him know if you are interested. There also will be op-portunities for businesses to become a sponsor. If anyone is interested in that please contact us and we can provide some info for you. We will have a display table at the event with several of our team members there to tell people about the work our ministry does. This is a great opportunity to inform people of the work being done by one of our many ministries here at SMBC. Thanks for your support, Jim and Gerry Harrah 458-5163

July 24—Neighborhood House 201 North 25th Street, Louisville, KY 40212 (502) 774-2322

Contact: Pam Rice

Neighborhood House in Portland is a community-based organization

that provides opportunities of educational, recreational, health, & so-

cial programs as well as the Child Development Center.

Projects:

• General Cleaning

• Cleaning & Organizing Food Pantry

• Preparing snacks for Children

• Help with Children in Summer Programs

• Spruce up Landscaping

• Hours: 10:00am—6:00pm. You may choose the time of day that you want to work.

• We encourage EVERYONE to participate & bring guests! • Children are encouraged to participate with their parents. Childcare will

not be provided. • Mops & cleaning supplies will be provided. • Bring your own tools (which could include gloves and shovels/hoes/

rakes.) What you should bring will depend on what tasks you are inter-ested in doing.

• Bring your lunch with you. • Cold bottles of drinking water and snacks will be provided. • Transportation/carpooling is available.

General Information

Directions to Neighborhood House

1. Take I-64 West to 22nd Street. 2. Exit on 22nd Street and go South on 22nd St. 3. Turn Right on Rowan Street. 4. Turn Right on 25th Street. Neighborhood House is located on the Northeast corner of Rowan St. & 25th St. Park on the street around the 201 building or there is a paved parking lot by the 225 building, which Neighborhood House also owns.

God’s Design’s—July 10th Volunteers arrived early, with tools in hand, to paint and transform the exterior of the storage/workplace building of God’s De-signs. The multicolor concrete block building is located at 455 Vaughn Walker Way, on the prop-erty of First Gethsemane Church. The interior of the building had al-ready been renovated by volunteers, many of them from SMBC. The 90-degree, muggy day began with prayer led by Pastor Greg. The men and women soon had the long-handled rollers covering the build-ing with gallons of paint. A lot of water breaks were needed in the heat and humidity. Other volun-teers worked inside mending, sew-ing, folding items, painting furni-ture, and organizing. A counter-top was also installed in the bathroom. After a short break for lunch, the large group of volunteers continued their work, along with much laugh-ter and joking. Many thanks to all the volunteers who gave of their time and talent to help this ministry which has im-pacted the lives of many people. God’s Designs was organized and incorporated in 2010, exclusively for charitable purposes, by Jim and Gerry Harrah. The ministry pro-vides donated furniture and house-hold items for complete make-over of living spaces of low-income families. Reported by

Frieda Curtis-Wheatley

Christian Sympathy to

…the family of Edythe Cooper who passed away on July 8. …Donna and Phil Stromowsky and family on the passing of Donna’s niece in Springfield, IL on July 7. ...Sam Chinn on the passing of his mother, Gale Thomason, on July 5. …Marie Wessinger on the passing of her cousin, Gwen Schmitt, in Quincy, IL on July 4.

July 24—Baptist Fellowship Center 1351 Catalpa Street, Louisville, KY 40211 (502) 774-2734

Contact: Matthew Smyzer

The Baptist Fellowship Center networks with churches to meet

the needs of the Greater Louisville community through childcare,

family counseling & a truancy prevention program, etc.

Projects:

• Window Cleaning

• General Cleaning

• Repair Steps inside Front Door

• Paint Director’s Office

• Landscaping and Beautifying front of building

Directions to Baptist Fellowship Center 1. Take I-64 West to I-264 East . (Take Exit #1 on the Left toward Shively.) 2. Take Exit #3 to Virginia Avenue / Dumesnil Street. 3. Take a Slight Left onto Dumesnil Street. 4. Turn Right onto Catalpa Street.